General, I assume you're ordering me to... Dammit! I am ordering you to command! How and what you do is your problem!

— Sam Houston (Richard Boone)

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6 seconds sound clip from the The Alamo (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:06:09.478 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- We can dispense with the amenities, Colonel.

- Now, I've been given command of the armies of Texas. But the fly in the buttermilk is there ain't no armies in Texas! A few good friends and some willing men.

- I'm gonna have to knock some of those men into an army and to do that I need time.

- You people right here on the real ground are gonna have to buy me that time.

- You gonna have to keep Santa Anna off the back of my neck until I can get in shape to fight him.

- General, I assume you're ordering me to... Dammit! I am ordering you to command! How and what you do is your problem!

- But, Sam, what about Jim Bowie?

- Jim Bowie, as Mister Bonham has informed us, is indisposed.

- Yes, sir. But I'd like to point out, sir, that Jim Bowie is leading 100 volunteers, whereas young Travis here commands less than 30 regulars.

- 27.

- General Houston, I think we oughta discuss this...

- Clear the room!

[...]

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